Category: gender
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“When a woman has assets, it impacts more directly on the access to nutrition for all members of the family than when only the man has assets.”
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India’s Congress Party president, Sonia Gandhi, has recently called for a constitutional right to food, according to this article in the New York Times (“India Asks: Should Food be a Right for the Poor?”). She also advocates expanding the existing food entitlement program, to ensure that each family “would qualify for a monthly 77-pound bag…